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Note: this was our first one, placed in the portal when the portal was created on Jan 28, 2006.

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  • Feb 28, 2006 - Olave Baden-Powell was educated by her father, her mother Katharine (nee Hill), and a number of governesses at home. Home repeatedly changed, as her father continually moved house as he travelled. Olave became keen on outdoor sports including tennis, swimming, football, skating and canoeing, and also played the violin. In January 1912, Olave met Second Boer War hero and founder of the Scouts and Girl Guides Robert Baden-Powell on an ocean liner (Arcadia) on the way to New York to start one of his Scouting World Tours. She was 23, he 55, and they shared the same birthday. They became engaged in September of the same year, causing a media sensation. To avoid press intrusion, they married in secret on October 30, 1912.

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  • Apr 30, 2006 - William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt (August 6, 1900 - November 9, 1992) is considered by many to be the father of American Boy Scouting and the Scoutmaster to the World due to his prolific writings and teachings in the areas of troop and patrol structure, training, and the development of the American adaptation of the Wood Badge program. While he was not the founder of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), he is considered to be second in influence upon the program only to Robert Baden-Powell himself. He was a Danish Knight Scout (equivalent of Eagle Scout) who moved to th USA and took a job with the BSA.

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  • May 31, 2006 - Lloyd Monserratt (1966-2003), was born in Los Angeles, California. Lloyd was the eldest son of Ecuadorian immigrants Carlos and Olga Monserratt. His father was an architect and named his eldest son after Frank Lloyd Wright. Lloyd graduated from UCLA and was politically active, especially on behalf of minorities. He died from complications during surgery.

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  • Aug 31, 2006 - Dr. James E. West (1876–1948) was a lawyer and an advocate of children's rights, who become the first professional Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), serving from 1911-1943. Upon his retirement from the BSA, West was given the title of Chief Scout. Though many disliked him, especially youth, it was his organizational skills that made the BSA the strong national Scouting association that it is. He was an orphan, Mason, Knight of Pythias and on the cover of TIME magazine on July 12, 1937.

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  • Oct 31, 2006 - Major-General Georges-Philéas Vanier, PC DSO MC & Bar was a Canadian soldier and diplomat who was Governor General of Canada from 1959-1967. General Vanier encouraged young people to work hard and achieve excellence. His commitment to youth was evident in his enjoyment of his role as Canada's Chief Scout and his active support of the Scouting movement. He initiated in 1967 the Vanier Awards for Outstanding Young Canadians, which recognized excellence in the Canadian Junior Chamber of Commerce. And to recognize excellence in public service at the federal, provincial or municipal level, the Vanier Medal of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada was established in 1962.

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  • Dec 31, 2006 - Agnes Baden-Powell is the younger sister of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, and is most noted for her work in establishing the Girl Guides movement as a female counterpart to her older brother's Scouting Movement. Their father, Reverend Baden Powell, was the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her mother, Henrietta Grace Smyth, was the third wife of the reverend (the previous two having died), and was a gifted musician and artist. Agnes also became an accomplished musician, playing the organ, piano and violin. She also had many varied interests, including natural history and astronomy, and kept bees at her home. Following the creation of the Boy Scout Association, Robert Baden-Powell organised a gathering of Scouts at the Crystal Palace in London. He was mildly surprised to see a significant number of self-styled Girl Scouts who sought to imitate their brothers and join in with the Scouting phenomenon. However, Edwardian ideals prohibited young women participating in the more vigorous activities that were a part of Scouting, and so Robert asked his sister Agnes to help with the creation of the Girl Guide movement.